11-25-2012, 09:21 AM
I come to my family and friends, and I ask them to read a poem I've made. They say they don't want to, because poetry is boring. So they watch TV, and get high and drunk. I'm not saying I'm writing for myself as much as I'm saying that nobody will read what I write. But they will ask me what good does it do to write poetry.
And what I've tried to ask before is: Don't you see how poetry is important in how it affects people, despite the form? The symbolic power it gives to life? That poetry gives life a meaning? That's the way I was using the idea, Poetry. It challenges, and it soothes, and it angers, and it makes you happy, makes you think, and feel, and consider things. And do things, with a sense of purpose.
And what I've tried to ask before is: Don't you see how poetry is important in how it affects people, despite the form? The symbolic power it gives to life? That poetry gives life a meaning? That's the way I was using the idea, Poetry. It challenges, and it soothes, and it angers, and it makes you happy, makes you think, and feel, and consider things. And do things, with a sense of purpose.